We have had some people ask us if this Clinic is for them so we have come up with some questions that you can ask yourself:

• Do your dogs stop running when you ask them to go?
• Does your leader seem to think that it is his full time job to mark every tree and bush on the trail?
• Do you have 2 or more dogs that cannot be run next to each other because they fight?
• Does your team stop on an uphill?
• Do your leaders-team dogs like to chase things on the trail?
• Do your leaders-team dogs refuse to pass other teams?
• Do your leaders-team dogs lose interest or stop before the run is over?
• Do you even have a leader?
• Do your dogs stop the team to drink out of puddles on the road? Or chase a stray dog?
• Do your leaders-team dogs know 'on by'? Gee/haw?
• Do you have a dog (or dogs) that flat out refuse to run?
• Do your dogs eat all of your equipment if you don't have help to hook up your team?
• Do your dogs pull your rig away while you are off of the rig trying to correct a problem in the team?

Mushers at Boot Camp practicing with their leaders on how to keep a tight line in front of a resting team.

Some of our goals at Boot Camp are: FINDING LEADERS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD; problem solving with AGGRESSIVE/dominant dogs and SUBMISSIVE/passive dogs; teaching GEE/HAW, GEE OVER, ON BY, LINEOUT, as well as general basic sled dog training with an emphasis on teaching your dogs to WORK. These are the same training techniques that we use to train our own sled dogs and prepare our race teams.

"Control is a gift
The finest control is a delicate grip on chaos
Control must be prepared for, trained, invoked"
from Nop's Hope by Donald McCaig